Stone bruises
By: Simon Beckett
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: ISIS Large Print
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781445099354
Subjects: Large type books; Fiction
Description: "Sean is on the run. We don't know why and we don't know from whom, but we do know he's abandoned his battered, blood-stained car in the middle of a sweltering, isolated, lonely part of rural France. Desperate to avoid the police, he takes to the hedgerows and country lanes only to be caught in the vicious jaws of a trap. Near unconscious from pain and loss of blood, he is freed and taken in by two women - the daughters of the owner of a rundown local farm with its ramshackle barn, blighted vineyard and the brooding lake. And it's then that Sean's problems really start ..." (publisher).
Notes: Standard print edition originally published: London: Bantam Press, 2014.
Table of contents: title: Standard print edition originally published: London: Bantam Press, 2014.-Sean is on the run. We don't know why and we don't know from whom, but we do know he's abandoned his battered, blood-stained car in the middle of an isolated, lonely part of rural France at the height of a sweltering summer. Desperate to avoid the police, he takes to the parched fields and country lanes only to be caught in the vicious jaws of a trap. Near unconscious from pain and loss of blood, he is freed and taken in by two women; title: daughters of the owner of a rundown local farm with its ramshackle barn, blighted vineyard and the brooding lake. And it's then that Sean's problems really start ...